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    Norman Derek Mahon (23 November 1941 – 1 October 2020) was an Irish poet. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland but lived in a number of cities around...
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    Craig Derek Mahon (born 21 June 1989) is an Irish footballer who plays as a winger for National League North club Curzon Ashton where he holds the role...
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  • recognize and work to dismantle the staple elements of imperial narrative." Derek Mahon dedicates his poem "A Disused Shed in County Wexford" to Farrell, possibly...
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    Odyssey in humorous fashion. Derek Mahon suggests Elpenor (but does not name him specifically) in his poem "Lives". Mahon talks of a decaying oar, planted...
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    original into the other of his two languages; several writers, including Derek Mahon, have attempted translations, but no complete version of the sequence...
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    Brian Friel 1982 The Communication Cord Brian Friel 1984 High Time Derek Mahon 1984 The Riot Act Tom Paulin 1986 Double Cross Thomas Kilroy 1987 Pentecost...
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  • Stevenson, Carol Rumens, Christopher Reid, Craig Raine, David Sweetman, Derek Mahon, Douglas Dunn, Fleur Adcock, Hugo Williams, James Fenton, Jeffrey Wainwright...
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  • Philip Larkin, Howard Nemerov, James Merrill, Derek Walcott, Geoffrey Hill, Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon continued to work (though not exclusively) in...
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    Evans, 1988, prose and verse, as The God of Ecstasy (St. Martin's Press) Derek Mahon, 1991 Nicholas Rudall, 1996 Richard Seaford, 1996: prose Frederic Raphael...
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    especially those from Northern Ireland, came to prominence including Derek Mahon, Medbh McGuckian, John Montague, Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon. Influential...
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